美人

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: Spelling: 美人. Reading: びじん. Core meaning: beautiful woman; beauty.
• Basic usage: Representative examples: 小説には気さくな美人の店主が登場する / 彼女は美人だと言われて少し照れた.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A noun referring to a person
  • 美人 is a noun for a woman regarded as beautiful and can form the predicate 美人だ. Its sentence structure differs from that of a simple adjective such as “beautiful.”